Back on May 4th, Rob Arthur, a baseball columnist for Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight, wrote a pretty damning article about the seven-time Gold Glove award winning catcher of the St. Louis Cardinals titled "Yadier Molina Forgot How to Frame a Pitch." While Arthur backed up his criticisms with statistics, early May seemed pretty early to arrive at such a clear-cut conclusion, even if he later responded to questions regarding stabilization points of pitch framing. Frankly, Arthur wasted zero words in getting his primary point across to his readers:
Yadier Molina is falling apart.